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Benjamin Hoy

Benjamin Hoy’s A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands documents a border made in conflict, inseparable from histories of colonialism and Indigenous resistance, and designed to mean different things for different people.


Artist Megan Benoit on Medicinal Healing

Megan Benoit discusses her personal history and how she came to create her award-winning artwork “Medicinal Healing,” an abstract interpretation of the medicine wheel.


#DYKs for the Holidays

History tidbits to get you through the holidays!


Canada’s Strange Laws

Check out our list of wacky laws in Canada.


The Hair of the Dog

Was it a sheep or a dog? A canine with an identity complex, the wool dog was prized by the Salish of British Columbia for the thick, soft, white hair they could transform into magnificent blankets.


The Making of the October Crisis

Book Review: This book is a brisk, well-researched, and richly detailed account of events that jangled Quebec’s nerves from 1963 until 1970.


The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock

Book Review: In The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock, Guy St-Denis explores the trail of Brock’s portraiture, revealing a vast amount of fascinating information about his family, his descendants, and his admirers, as well as their efforts to uncover, to authenticate, and to preserve his likeness.


The Captain Was a Doctor

Book Review: The Captain Was a Doctor: The Long War and Uneasy Peace of POW John Reid


Behind the lines

Canadian teenager pays tribute to family flying ace in new graphic novel set during the Second World War.


War Crimes

In 2011, on the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Hong Kong, we revisited the terrible fate of the Canadians who were sent to protect the British colony.